Larry Wall (b. September 27, 1954), programmer, linguist, author, is most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976.

Wall is the creator of the rn Usenet software and a about always utilized patch. He has won a International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice and was a recipient of the number 1 Free Software Foundation's award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1998.

Beyond his technical indicator skills, Wall is known for his wit & typically ironic feel of humor, which he displays in the comments to his source code or on Usenet. E.g.: "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."

Larry Wall occurs as trained linguist, and has utilized this expert training videos in the project of Perl. He is the co-joint author of Programming Perl (often known as a Camel Book), which is the definitive resource for Perl software engineer. He has edited a Perl Cookbook. His books were published by O'Reilly.

Wall's Christian faith has informed the select few of a nomenclature of Perl, like the title itself, a biblical information to the "Pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:46). Similar information come a work list bless & confess & a organization of his talks into categories like apocalypse & exegesis. Wall has too alluded to his faith while he has spoken at conferences, including a like straightforward statement of his beliefs at the August, 1997 Perl Conference and the discussion of Pilgrim's Progress at the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) in June, 2000.

Wall continues to oversee farther development of Perl & serves when a Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Perl project. His role around Perl is better conveyed per and then-supposed Ii System, taken from either a official Perl documentation: